AI News — Page 48
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
UK police facial recognition is outpacing oversight rules
Live facial recognition is being deployed by UK police and retailers faster than regulators can keep up, with the Met scanning over 1.7 million faces this year.
DeepMind UK staff seek union recognition over Pentagon AI deal
Google DeepMind workers in the UK have voted to unionise after the Pentagon contract and dropped weapons pledge, in what unions describe as a frontier-lab first.
South Africa pulls AI policy after AI-generated citations exposed
South Africa has withdrawn its draft national AI policy after fictitious AI-generated citations were discovered in its source list, the minister has confirmed.
UK research: cybercriminals struggling to make AI tools work for them
Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Cambridge researchers analyse 100m dark-web posts and find AI tools mostly help already-skilled hackers, not script kiddies.
Edinburgh AI tool aims to unlock UK woodland carbon investment
New Gradient's Earth-observation system, backed by UK Space Agency, automates Woodland Carbon Code verification to bridge a £1.8bn private investment gap.
English councils to trial Google AI planning tool to halve approval times
Augmented Planning Decision Tool, built by Google on £8.3m contract, will recommend grant or refuse decisions; council officers retain final sign-off.
Lloyds launches Envoy internal AI agent platform on Google Cloud
Lloyds Banking Group rolls out an in-house platform letting employees build, share and reuse AI agents through an internal marketplace, with human oversight.
